Socials Vocab
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- indulgence
- a release from all or parts of punishment for sin by the catholic church, reducion time in purgatory after death
- colony
- a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control
- mainland states
- part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands
- middle passage
- the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route.
- prespective
- create the illusion of three dimension, instead of making something look flat
- conquistador
- a spanish conqueror of the Americas
- balance of trade
- the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time
- moluccas
- spice islands known by the europeans
- salvation
- a state of being saved (that is going to heaven) through faith alone of through faith nd good works.
- annul
- declaare invalid
- council of trent
- one of three chief pillars of the cathilic Reformation
- bureaucracy
- the diffrence in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time
- fresco
- a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints
- predestination
- the belief that god has determined in advance who will be saved (the elect) and who will be damned (the reprobate)
- mercantilism
- a set of priciples that dominated economic though in the seventeenth century, it held the the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver
- rebirth
- the recanation of an individual's soul in a different from after death
- plantation
- a large agricultural estate
- humanism
- an intelectual movement of the Renaissance based on the story of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history